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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 28.
Published in final edited form as: European J Org Chem. 2009 Jan;2009(1):3–169. doi: 10.1002/ejoc.200800804

Scheme 2.

Scheme 2

Two stereodivergent lines of RCC reductases occur in (senescent) higher plants, each giving one of two epimeric “primary” FCCs (pFCCs) by stereoselective reduction of (enzyme-bound) red chlorophyll catabolite (RCC).[26,27]